Monday, 22 January 2018

Applying media language terminology.

Monday 22nd January
L/O: To apply media terminology when analysing music videos.


  1. Narrative style and performance elements
  2. Camerawork- shot type, angle and movement 
  3. Sound- diegetic and non diegetic
  4. Mise en scene- hair, makeup, costume, props and locations
  5. Editing- cut types, length and speed, graphics, transitions
Video one- Black magic
  1. Linear Narrative- story about them using magic to get fashionable and fall in love/ Performance- Singing and dancing to people in corridor and classroom
  2. Either full length or mid shot throughout
  3. Diegetic- school bell (suggests that its in a school)and outside noises at the start to establish setting/Non diegetic- background music
  4. Location- school/ Costumes- geeky clothes to fashionable, Hair- all up at the start then down at the end/Makeup- None at start then at end subtle makeup/ Props- Magic book
  5. Straight cut from one scene to another- natural editing except the magic features

Them at end of the video:
Them at start of video:












Video two- Somebody to you
  1. Narrative- Story about him falling in love with the girl/ Performance- Singing on the beach as the band/Demi Lovato--Narrative based on performance montage.
  2. Mainly  naturalistic, magical elements edited in, saturated colour 
  3. .Diegetic-At start sound of waves to establish setting, Them singing and the band instruments / Non diegetic- Demi Lovato singing
  4. Location- beach, swimming pool /Props- Instruments, Tennis, Volleyball, pool floats/Costume- swimsuits, shorts, top/ Makeup- subtle/ Hair- (Girls) Curled, straight or up
  5. Fast paced editing and cross cutting- natural editing
Girls in the video:


Demi Lovato:

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